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Q: What causes a wave to bend from 1 medium to another?
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What causes a wave to bend and travel in a new direction when it moves from one medium to another?

Waves may bend if they move from one medium to another.


What causes a wave to bend and travel in new direction when it moves from one medium to another?

The speed of the wave in the different mediums.


What cause a wave to bend when traveling from one medium to another?

Refraction- Your so very welcome:)


What cause a wave to bend when traveling to one medium to another?

Refraction- Your so very welcome:)


When do waves bend traveling through a medium?

The bending of a wave occurs when the wave hits a object?


When a wave changes from one medium to another causing it to bend?

The velocity of the light wave differs in different media. This is the main cause for bending of light ray as it traversed from one medium to the other


Which type of wave causes the medium to vibrate perpendicular to the direction of the wave?

Transverse Wave.


What is another word for the substance in which a wave travels?

A medium.


Which wave causes the medium to vibrate only in a direction parallel to the wave's motion?

Longitudinal wave


The tendency of a wave to bend as it passes from one transparent medium to another is called?

The bending of light rays as they ener a new medium is called refraction.


What is a wave that causes the medium to vibrate in stationery pattern resembling a loop or series of loops?

A wave that causes the medium to vibrate in stationery pattern resembling a loop or series of loops is called a resonant wave.


What is a wave which causes the particles of the medium to move in the same direction that the wave is traveling?

It's called a longitudinal wave.